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Robustness without rank order statistics |
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| Authors: | Paul W Mielke Jr Janis E Johnston |
| Institution: | 1. Department of Statistics , Colorado State University , Fort Collins, CO, USA;2. AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow at US EPA National Homeland Security Research Center , Washington, DC, USA |
| Abstract: | An alternative to conventional rank tests based on a Euclidean distance analysis space is described. Comparisons based on exact probability values among classical two-sample t-tests and the Wilcoxon–Mann–Whitney test illustrate the advantages of the Euclidean distance analysis space alternative. |
| Keywords: | analysis space Euclidean distance rank-order statistics robustness |